SUNDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2019

SUN 00:00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz (m0002rvb)
Stop-time

Geoffrey Smith analyses the challenging art of “stop-time”, when a jazz soloist improvises not against a steady beat but rhythmic punctuation, with thrilling examples from the likes of Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell and Sonny Rollins.


SUN 01:00 Through the Night (m0002rvd)
Brahms for violin and piano

Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in an all Brahms programme. Presented by Jonathan Swain.

1:01 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
F-A-E Sonata
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

1:28 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 1 in G, Op 78
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

1:57 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 2 in A, Op 100
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

2:17 am
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

2:39 am
Leó Weiner (1885-1960)
Serenade for small orchestra in F minor Op 3
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Zóltan Kocsis (conductor)

3:01 am
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata: "Ich hatte viel Bekummernis" BWV.21
Antonella Balducci (soprano), Frieder Lang (tenor), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Solisti e Chorus of Swiss-Italian Radio, Ensemble Vanitas Lugano, Diego Fasolis (conductor)

3:36 am
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Miroirs
Martina Filjak (piano)

4:09 am
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Scherzo Capriccioso Op 66
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Oliver Dohnányi (conductor)

4:22 am
William Byrd (1538-1623)
Firste Pavian and Galliarde
Andreas Borregaard (accordion)

4:28 am
Eugen Suchoň (1908-1993)
Ballade for Horn and Orchestra
Peter Sivanic (horn), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava, Mário Kosík (conductor)

4:38 am
Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710)
Tarantella
Eduardo Egüez (guitar)

4:46 am
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Nun danket alle Gott - motet for double chorus & bc
Cantus Cölln, Christoph Anselm Noll (organ), Konrad Junghänel (director)

4:50 am
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Septet for 3 oboes, 3 violins and continuo (TWV.44:43) in B flat major
Il Gardellino

5:01 am
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)
Overture (Die Fledermaus)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

5:09 am
Artemy Vedel (1767-1808)
Choral concerto No 5 "I cried unto the Lord With my voice" Psalm 143
Platon Maiborada Academic Choir, Viktor Skoromny (conductor)

5:19 am
John Corigliano (b.1938)
Fantasia on an ostinato for piano
Ji-Yeong Mun (piano)

5:29 am
Franz Doppler (1821-1883)
Fantaisie pastorale hongroise Op 26 (version for flute & piano)
Ivica Gabrisova-Encingerova (flute), Matej Vrabel (piano)

5:40 am
Petko Stainov (1896-1977)
Symphonic Scherzo
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Stefanov (conductor)

5:50 am
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Capriccio diabolico for guitar Op 85
Goran Listes (guitar)

5:59 am
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
Holberg Suite Op 40 vers. for string orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland (conductor)

6:22 am
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano (K.457) in C minor
Denis Burshtein (piano)

6:46 am
Charles Avison (1709-1770)
Concerto Grosso No 2 in G major for strings and continuo
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Jeanne Lamon (director)


SUN 07:00 Breakfast (m0002rxh)
Sunday - Elizabeth Alker

Elizabeth Alker presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show including a Sunday morning Sounds of the Earth slow radio soundscape.

Email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk


SUN 09:00 Sunday Morning (m0002rxk)
Sarah Walker with Nielsen, Debussy and Vaughan Williams

Sarah Walker’s Sunday morning selection includes traditional Norwegian music, and pieces from Denmark by Carl Nielsen. There’s a French flavour in pieces by Ravel, Debussy and Saint-Saens, as well as Haydn’s Symphony No. 58 in F. The Sunday Escape features Vaughan Williams’s Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus.


SUN 12:00 Private Passions (m0002rxm)
Julian Baggini

Michael Berkeley talks to the philosopher Julian Baggini about the pleasures of serendipity, transience, philosophy and music.

The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, Do They Think You’re Stupid? and What’s It All About? are just three of the eye-catchingly titled books by Julian Baggini. He’s written 19 books in all, is the founding editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, writes for newspapers, magazines and think tanks, and appears on radio and television. His latest book is How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy.

Julian has been described as a philosopher’s philosopher, but he also has a mission to liberate philosophy from its ivory tower and bring it to the general reader. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten – his collection of 100 brief thought experiments – has been described as ‘mental fun-sized treats’ and ‘the Sudoku of moral philosophy’.

Julian tells Michael about the joy he’s felt discovering pieces of music by Brahms, Ravel and Dvorak through chance encounters, and how he’s come to love music written for a video game by Jessica Curry when he met her on University Challenge.

He believes that both music and philosophy can help us appreciate beauty, come to terms with the transience of existence, and accept that life can be bitter and sweet at the same time.

Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3


SUN 13:00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (m0002l9x)
Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately celebrates the words and music of women

From Wigmore Hall, London, presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper present a programme of English Song settings of some of the 20th-century’s best-loved female poets and writers, including Ursula Vaughan Williams, Virginia Woolf, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Margaret Atwood.

Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Jonathan Dove: All the Future Days (Autobiography; Penelope; The Siren)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 4 Last Songs
Judith Cloud: Night Dreams (Variations on the Word Sleep)
Lori Laitman: Orange Afternoon Lover (I Was Reading a Scientific Article)
Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (Anxiety)
Rebecca Clarke: Lethe
Juliana Hall: Letters from Edna (To Harriet Monroe; To Mother)
Jonathan Dove: Nights Not Spent Alone

Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)
Simon Lepper (piano)


SUN 14:00 The Early Music Show (b06yjk08)
Folk Connections in Early Music

For Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, Lucie Skeaping explores the influence of folk music on the performance of early music, and plays examples by Jordi Savall, The Harp Consort, City Waites, Concerto Caledonia and others.

01 00:01:45 Trad.
Gaudete
Performer: Steeleye Span
Music Arranger: Dimpho Di Kopane
Duration 00:02:10

02 00:06:32 Joseph Haydn
My love she's but a lassie yet
Performer: Klaus Mertens
Performer: Andrew Manze
Performer: Jaap ter Linden
Performer: Richard Fuller
Duration 00:01:39

03 00:08:12 Francesco Geminiani
Auld Bob Morrice
Ensemble: Palladian Ensemble
Duration 00:02:56

04 00:11:08 William Byrd
The Woods So Wild
Performer: Ursula Dütschler
Duration 00:04:11

05 00:15:20 Anon.
John Come Kiss Me Now
Ensemble: Scaramouche
Duration 00:03:11

06 00:21:31 Anon.
The Three Ravens
Ensemble: The City Waites
Duration 00:02:54

07 00:24:26 Scotland.Traditional
The Flowres Of The Forrest
Performer: Rob MacKillop
Duration 00:01:47

08 00:26:14 anon
The Lass Of Peattie's Mill
Performer: Palladian Ensemble
Duration 00:02:29

09 00:28:43 Robert Mackintosh
The Diamond Reel / Miss Burnet of Monboddo's Reel
Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia
Duration 00:01:59

10 00:33:12 Trad
Tomorrow The Fox Will Come To Town
Ensemble: The City Waites
Duration 00:02:10

11 00:35:22 Anon.
The Agincourt Carol
Ensemble: The Young Tradition
Duration 00:04:32

12 00:40:40 anon
A Country Lasse
Ensemble: The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments
Duration 00:01:50

13 00:42:33 Orlando Gibbons
Cryes of London I and II
Ensemble: Fretwork
Ensemble: Red Byrd
Duration 00:07:03

14 00:45:15 England.Traditional
Packington's Pound
Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King
Ensemble: The Harp Consort
Duration 00:03:10

15 00:49:16 Traditional Irish
Cutting The Kelp
Performer: Quadriga Consort
Ensemble: Quadriga Consort
Duration 00:01:34

16 00:50:51 Traditional Irish
The Musical Priest / Scotch Mary
Performer: Jordi Savall
Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King
Performer: Jordi Savall
Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King
Duration 00:03:37

17 00:55:00 Henry Purcell
There's not a swain of the plain
Singer: Olivia Chaney
Duration 00:04:16


SUN 15:00 Choral Evensong (m0002mjr)
1995 Archive Recording from the Chapel of New College, Oxford

An archive recording from the Chapel of New College, Oxford (first broadcast 18 January 1995).

Introit: Hear my prayer (Purcell)
Responses: Ebdon
Psalms 93, 94 (Macfarren, Wesley)
First Lesson: Joel 3 vv.1-3, 9-21
Office Hymn: Happy are they (Binchester)
Canticles: Evening Service in E minor (Pelham Humfrey)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 13 vv.1-13
Anthem: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem (Purcell)
Hymn: Immortal Love (Bishopthorpe)
Organ Voluntary: Dialogue in C (Third book) (Marchand)

Edward Higginbottom (Director of Music)
Paul Plummer (Organ Scholar)


SUN 16:00 Choir and Organ (m0002rxp)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch with an irresistible mix of music and singing. This week's selection includes Gabrieli, Vaughan Williams in rousing form, the Icelandic composer Jon Leifs' haunting Requiem, Imogen Holst and a favourite recording of a classic choral work: Bach's motet Komm, Jesu Komm.

Producer: Johannah Smith for BBC Wales


SUN 17:00 The Listening Service (b09qcyxw)
I guess that's why they call it the Blues

We all think we know what 'The Blues' means - whether it's feeling down in the dumps or a musical genre that links Muddy Waters through to the Rolling Stones.

But what is it really? What makes The Blues the Blues? And where did it come from? Tom Service is joined by jazz pianist Julian Joseph to discover its earliest African-American origins right up to current day Blues music and its influence on classical musicians.

Whether we're talking Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, classical composers using 'Blue' notes or that feeling of melancholy - the Blues has often found its way onto the concert stage too. Tom looks back across classical music history to find that actually music has had a bad case of the blues for many centuries.


SUN 17:30 Words and Music (m0002rxt)
Everything Must Change

“Winter turns to spring” and “a wounded heart will heal.” This week’s Words and Music circles around a song by Bernard Ighner, Everything Must Change, heard here in Nina Simone’s powerful 1978 interpretation. The ballad is a meditation on “the way of time” and the truth that life is itself constant transformation.

To look at the news these days is to be reminded of a world in flux, collapse and transition. But zooming out from the posturing and political noise, we are invited to marvel at how all things are interconnected, to sit with the knowledge that, in Thomas Hardy’s words, the elements that make up a “ruddy human life” become the green shoots of a young tree, that bones become coral and eyes, pearls, in the famous imagery of Ariel’s song from The Tempest.

But how do we respond to the miracle of existence and the fact of death? D.H. Lawrence and Marcus Aurelius suggest that to embrace change is to experience life more fully and more naturally. We hear Aretha Franklin and Philip Ayres desperately promise a constant love, immortal, beyond time. We sit by a river with the poet, Wisława Szymborska, and lie with lovers in the tall grass of high summer, savouring the present. The theme-and-variation form is heard in the hands of Rubbra and Schubert. We gaze at the clouds, through the music of John Luther Adams, and turn our awareness inwards to the flow of thoughts “that flash, kaleidoscope-like, now in, now out”, in the words of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Consciousness is a mystery. As Alice in Wonderland knew all too well, the cells of the body are itching and dancing with life and transformation if we care to notice.

Featuring the voice of Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso, recorded in New Mexico.

Produced by Phil Smith.

A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.

01 00:01:13
D.H. Lawrence
The Difference, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:00:23

02 00:01:36 Edmund Rubbra
Variations On A Phrygian Theme For Solo Violin, Op. 105
Performer: Krysia Osostowicz
Duration 00:02:11

03 00:03:47
Thomas Hardy
Transformations, read by William Ash
Duration 00:02:05

04 00:05:52 Judith Weir
Variations On Summer Is Icumen In
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Jac van Steen
Duration 00:02:13

05 00:08:05
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon, read by William Ash
Duration 00:01:02

06 00:09:07 Colin Stetson
All the Days I've Missed You (ILAIJ I)
Performer: Colin Stetson
Duration 00:01:06

07 00:10:13
James Joyce
Dubliners: Eveline, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:01:45

08 00:11:58 Bernard Ighner
Everything Must Change
Performer: Nina Simone
Duration 00:04:05

09 00:16:03
Raymond Carver
Hummingbird (for Tess), Read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:00:30

10 00:16:33 Jonathan Harvey
Bhakti: I
Performer: Spectrum
Performer: Guy Protheroe
Duration 00:00:04

11 00:16:37
From an interview with Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso
Duration 00:01:10

12 00:17:47
D.H. Lawrence
The Breath of Life, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:00:40

13 00:18:27
Marcus Aurelius, trans. Gregory Hays
Meditations: Book 2, No. 17, read by William Ash
Duration 00:02:01

14 00:20:28
From an interview with Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso
Duration 00:00:45

15 00:21:13
D.H. Lawrence
The Breath of Life (Draft 1), read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:00:40

16 00:21:53 Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast: Vltava (Die Moldau)
Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic
Duration 00:00:15

17 00:22:08
Marcus Aurelius, trans. Gregory Hays
Meditations: Book 5, No. 23, read by William Ash
Duration 00:04:45

18 00:26:53
Wisława Szymborska, trans. Joanna Trzeciak
No Title Required, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:02:34

19 00:29:27 Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet in A, D.667, "The Trout": IV.
Performer: Alfred Brendel
Ensemble: Members Of The Cleveland Quartet
Performer: Paul Katz
Performer: James Van Demark
Performer: Martha Strongin Katz
Performer: Donald Weilerstein
Duration 00:04:50

20 00:34:17
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, read by William Ash
Duration 00:01:53

21 00:36:10 Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet in A, D.667, "The Trout": IV.
Performer: Alfred Brendel
Performer: James Van Demark
Performer: Paul Katz
Performer: Paul Katz
Performer: Donald Weilerstein
Performer: Members Of The Cleveland Quartet
Duration 00:02:53

22 00:39:03
Alice Ruth Moore
Impressions, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:02:53

23 00:39:03 Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Performer: Eduard Steuermann
Duration 00:00:30

24 00:41:35 Johann Hasler
Siete piezas en el espíritu del zen, III
Performer: Johann Hasler
Duration 00:01:08

25 00:42:43
Jo Shapcott
Of Mutability, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:00:33

26 00:42:43 John Luther Adams
Canticles of the Sky - III. Sky with Nameless Colors
Performer: JACK Quartet
Duration 00:00:33

27 00:43:53
From an interview with Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso
Duration 00:02:39

28 00:46:32
Thich Nhat Hanh
Answers From The Heart, read by William Ash
Duration 00:00:59

29 00:46:32 Jean Sibelius
Sonatine No. 2 for Piano in E Major, Op. 67 - II. Andantino
Performer: Glenn Gould
Duration 00:00:59

30 00:50:13
Joy Harjo
Remember, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:01:38

31 00:51:51 Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti, SV 251
Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata
Director: Christina Pluhar
Duration 00:06:52

32 00:58:43
Philip Ayres
Constancy, read by William Ash
Duration 00:01:05

33 00:59:48 David James Mattis
Pledging My Love - The Clock
Performer: Aretha Franklin
Duration 00:04:03

34 01:03:51 Myriad3
Exhausted Clocks
Performer: Myriad3
Duration 00:00:23

35 01:04:14
Aesop’s Fables, trans. George Fyler Townsend
The Olive Tree And The Fig Tree, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:01:01

36 01:05:15
Aesop’s Fables, trans. George Fyler Townsend
The Dog’s House, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:00:56

37 01:06:11
Aesop’s Fables, trans. George Fyler Townsend
The Rivers And The Sea, read by Emily Taaffe
Duration 00:02:42

38 01:08:53 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Shakespeare Songs: Full Fathom Five
Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Duration 00:03:25

39 01:12:18
Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows
Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29, read by William Ash
Duration 00:01:06


SUN 18:45 Sunday Feature (m0002rxw)
My Trouble with Classical Music

David Baddiel is on a quest to like classical music.

Growing up in the 1970s, David remembers classical music being his parents' big aspirational thing, with compulsory family viewing of the TV quiz show Face the Music, and classical music constantly seeping at low volume from the kitchen radio. David was encouraged to learn the piano, and did quite well until he discovered rock and pop music in his teens, and made the big punk statement of failing his Grade 7, buying an electric guitar and joining a band.

Since then, pop music has been David's true love - the songs of David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and others providing the soundtrack to his life - and he's developed an instinctive antipathy towards the classical music he was introduced to as a child. Now in his 50s, he wants to understand both the psychological and sonic reasons behind this, and find out if he can learn to enjoy it.

David is accompanied by those who share some of his feelings towards classical music, and others who attempt to open it up for him, including members of his family, his friend and comedy partner Frank Skinner, and the music writers Paul Morley and Miranda Sawyer. To unlock his musical thinking, David subjects himself to brain experiments with scientists at Goldsmiths, University of London, and learns to improvise with Professor Adam Ockelford. And, in the first classical concert since his grandfather took him to the Royal Festival Hall in 1974, David returns to the Southbank venue to experience Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony.


SUN 19:30 Drama on 3 (m0002rxy)
Orlando

Virginia Woolf's Orlando re-imagined by five poets

An exhilarating, inventive, comedic odyssey spanning four centuries. A journey of self-discovery and transformation, unravelling gender expectations, identity and sexuality.

Chapter 1 & 6: by Amanda Dalton
Chapter 2: by Caroline Bird
Chapter 3: by Zena Edwards
Chapter 4: by Karen McCarthy Woolf
Chapter 5: by Hannah Silva

ORLANDO.....Emma Frankland
OAK TREE.....Claire Benedict
QUEEN ELIZABETH I / THE BLACKAMOOR.....Nina Sosanya
MRS GRIMSDITCH.....Kate Rutter
EUPHROSYNE / SASHA / MAID.....Natalie Grady
NICHOLAS GREEN / CAPTAIN.....Rupert Hill
GRACE......Leonie Elliott
RUSTUM / NARRATOR.....Stephen Marzella
SHELMERDINE/ BOW STREET RUNNER .....Cesare Taurasi

Directed by Nadia Molinari


SUN 21:00 Radio 3 in Concert (m0002ry0)
Helsinki Philharmonic and RTE National Symphony

Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara's second cello concerto, entitled Towards the Horizon, was his last concerto before his death in 2016. It's a lush, lyrical work, with dreamlike flights for the soloist - Marko Ylönen in this Helsinki performance. Then we head to Dublin for a work that showcases other string soloists - the violin and viola. Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E flat is arguably the composer's first mature masterpiece, with its intensely impassioned slow movement and effervescent finale.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Rautavaara: Towards the Horizon
Marko Ylönen (cello)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä (conductor)

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat K364
Veronika Eberle (violin)
Amihai Grosz (viola)
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor)


SUN 22:00 Early Music Late (m0002ry2)
Venice: city of music and loss

Inalto performs music from the time of the plague in Renaissance Venice, including works by Monteverdi, Bassano and Gabrieli. In the 1570s, Venice was a crossing point, a place of east meets west and a celebration of life, colour and the flourishing arts. But it was also a time of plague and of immense, terrible loss. Inalto lead us through the shadowy city and a gamut of emotions, including the constant, plaintive cry of "I have sinned": Domine Deus meus peccavi by Giovanni Rovetta.


SUN 23:00 Roderick Williams: Three Years with Schubert (m0002ry4)
Schwanengesang

Roderick Williams has spent the last three years learning, exploring and performing three song cycles by Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang. During this process he kept a blog detailing the ups and downs of this process, the errors, pitfalls and payoffs.

In this programme, Roderick Williams journeys into the world of Schubert’s last song collection, Schwanengesang. He explores the challenges surrounding the performance of this music, including the language, discusses why he chose to study Schubert’s final song cycle first on his journey, and also relates some of the pros and cons of presenting this music interspersed with poetry.

Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales